Piemonte
As planned
we started our visit the last week of May to Piemonte to visit some new
producers we met at the tasting of Barolo & Friends in November last year.
This is not the place to mention the different DOC - DOCG - or IGT's, I suppose you as a wine lover knows them already.
This is not the place to mention the different DOC - DOCG - or IGT's, I suppose you as a wine lover knows them already.
As usual we
had the intention to taste only wines but this time we changed that and started with a visit to
a rice and risotto producer which is not so strange because a good wine lover
combines and loves often enough wine and
food.
So we
started at:
Tenuta Castello, Desana, Vercelli:
Before the
tour we settled ourselves in the agriturismo of Castello di Desana and went to
the pretty and historical city of Vercelli
We took
diner in the Trattoria Paolino in the city center, one we can advise to anyone
who likes good food at a good price. Even when you let Paolino give you advice,
please let him, we discovered a very good wine at a very good price. Not a
restaurant with a lot of “chique” but typical and with a new vision on food. He
doesn't want to create dishes that every restaurant produces but makes
them with a new twitch.
The next
morning we took the tour with the very friendly expert Signora Carlotta of the
risotto plantation and got a lot of information what happens before planting,
during summer, and after the harvest, to come to the end result, risotto.
One does
not realize the work that is going in making a good risotto. Further more, this
house is chosen to be the best risotteria in the Gambero Rosso.
At lunch we
tasted of course some risotto.
Grazie Carlotta
per la Sua accoglienza e generosità.
We moved to
an other place we never visited before, even not the region with an exclusive
DOC, Gabiano
